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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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Black Crime Easy Oppression World
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
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Black Freedom Man Work
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Need Ourselves Power Save Slave
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
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Black Freedom Man Work
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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Choice Disappointment Greatness Inspirational Life Possible Spirit
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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Believe Death Greatness Human Life Live Possible Progress Simplicity Time
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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Believe Democracy Election Evil Existence Myself Vote
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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Demand Dream Expression Freedom Human Soul Spirit
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work

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